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Biography

After graduating, I worked initially as a laboratory technician and demonstrator for the Nursing degree course in the School of Biological Science at Oxford Brookes University. Following teacher training, I was employed as a Nurse Tutor at Buckinghamshire College of Nursing and Midwifery, based at Stoke Mandeville hospital (validated initially by Oxford Brookes and latterly the University of Luton). Whilst there I researched the nursing students’ physical activity habits, physical fitness and attitudes to physical activity & fitness, which led to my MPhil with Oxford Brookes.

Since being employed at UEA I have enjoyed a variety of roles including programme development & leadership (common learning programme coordinator, pre-registration nursing course director, Interprofessional Learning programme, MSc Lifestyle Behaviour & Health), module development & leadership (Tissue Viability, Training the Trainers, Integrated sciences) and chaired the NAM evaluation group. I have pioneered the use of e-learning to enhance teaching (eg Blackboard, MasteringAandP) and implemented practical physiology clinics to enhance bioscience learning within the School.

Key Research Interests

I am particularly interested in the relationships between physical activity, physical fitness, body composition and health and am working with staff across the UEA to further develop this. I have also presented at conference on the topics of interprofessional learning, enquiry based learning and innovative ways of teaching bioscience and applying to health care.